Sex and Sensibility

Stories of a Lesbian Generation

Author: Arlene Stein
ISBN: 9780520206748

In the first book to analyze shifts in lesbian identity, consciousness, and culture from the 1970s to the 1990s, Arlene Stein contributes an important chapter to the study of the women's movement and offers a revealing portrait of the exchange between a radical generation of feminists and its successors. Tracing the evolution of the lesbian movement from the bar scene to the growth of alternative families, Stein illustrates how a generation of women transformed the woman-centered ideals of feminism into a culture and a lifestyle. Sex and Sensibility relates the development of a "queer" sensibility in the 1990s to the foundation laid by the gay rights and feminist movements a generation earlier. Beginning with the stories of thirty women who came of age at the climax of the 70s women's movement--many of whom defined lesbianism as a form of resistance to dominant gender and sexual norms--Stein explores the complex issues of identity that these women confronted as they discovered who the

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1997

Subjects: Social Science / Lesbian Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: LGBTQIA+)